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Retrospective 2019
… sie bewegt uns alle Kurt Stordel

An animation in praise of the Deutsche Mark as the solid currency to be trusted.

… sie bewegt uns alle

Animated Film
FRG
1950
10 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Kurt Stordel Filmproduktion
Director
Kurt Stordel
Music
Gerhard Trede
Animation
Kurt Stordel
Script
Bertram Otto
An animation in praise of the Deutsche Mark as the solid currency to be trusted.

Olaf Möller
Retrospective 2019
Aus dem Alltag in der DDR: Dritter Versuch einer Rekonstruktion Carlheinz Caspari

Re-enactments (complete with ideological background) of current events in the GDR for FRG television.

Aus dem Alltag in der DDR: Dritter Versuch einer Rekonstruktion

Documentary Film
FRG
1971
88 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
NDR
Director
Carlheinz Caspari
Cinematographer
Walter Fehdmer, Günter Selbach
Editor
Wolfgang Skerhutt
Script
Joachim Zweinert
Sound
Christian Dreyer
Re-enactments (complete with ideological background) of current events in the GDR for FRG television: prime time in the Cold War.

Olaf Möller
Retrospective 2019
Aus eigener Kraft Franz Schroedter

Photo: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft | About the reconstruction of Wolfsburg and the Volkswagen factory.

Aus eigener Kraft

Documentary Film
FRG
1954
78 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Franz Schroedter-Studio KG
Director
Franz Schroedter
Music
Alois Melichar
Cinematographer
Fritz Arno Wagner, Karl Löb, Wolf Göthe
Editor
Wolfgang Wehrum
Script
Dörte Harms, Franz Schroedter
Sound
Ewald Otto, Robert Fehrmann
Narrator
Hans Nielsen
Photo: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft | About the reconstruction of Wolfsburg and the Volkswagen factory.

Olaf Möller
Retrospective 2018
Besonders Wertvoll Hellmuth Costard

The scandal of Oberhausen in 1968: a penis, a conservative MP, a film funding act, a fart.

Besonders Wertvoll

Documentary Film
FRG
1968
11 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Director
Hellmuth Costard
The scandal of Oberhausen in 1968: a penis, a conservative MP, a film funding act, a fart. Aren’t you ashamed of yourself?

Tobias Hering
Retrospective 2013
Born Out of Death Monica Maurer

The West-German director Monica Maurer made a number of important films for the PLO. The Israeli airstrikes against Beirut on 17 July 1981 killed 350 people, including a pregnant woman whose baby could be rescued ...

Born Out of Death

Documentary Film
FRG
1981
9 minutes

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Producer
PLO
Director
Monica Maurer
Cinematographer
Mohamed Awad, Samir Nimer
Editor
Mauro Contini
Script
Monica Maurer
The West-German director Monica Maurer made a number of important films for the PLO. The Israeli airstrikes against Beirut on 17 July 1981 killed 350 people, including a pregnant woman whose baby could be rescued from her torn-up womb. Maurer shows the people’s suffering and pain, their victimhood. She addresses the systemic causes of violence, referring back to the history of their country and formulating arguments for the necessity of a fight for liberation.

Irit Neidhardt
Retrospective 2018
Cultural Nationalism Skip Norman

Black Power on a snowy meadow in West Berlin: a black child and a speech by Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party.

Cultural Nationalism

Documentary Film
FRG
1969
11 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
dffb
Director
Skip Norman
Black Power on a snowy meadow in West Berlin: a black child and a speech by Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party.

Ralph Eue
Retrospective 2019
Der heiße Frieden Ferdinand Khittl

A modernistic essay about the free market economy. New (West-)German Cinema puts itself in the service of its state and its ideology.

Der heiße Frieden

Documentary Film
FRG
1965
37 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Gesellschaft für bildende Filme
Director
Ferdinand Khittl
Music
Hans Posegga
Cinematographer
Ronald Martini
Editor
Irmgard Henrici
Script
Ferdinand Khittl
Narrator
Charles Regnier
A modernistic essay about the free market economy. New (West-)German Cinema puts itself in the service of its state and its ideology.

Olaf Möller
Retrospective 2018
Der Reifenschneider und seine Frau Klaus Wildenhahn, Roland Hehn, Horst Schwaab

A portrait of two outsiders and their life at the margins: the margin of society in West Berlin and the margin of a West Berlin student rally.

Der Reifenschneider und seine Frau

Documentary Film
FRG
1968
64 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
dffb
Director
Klaus Wildenhahn, Roland Hehn, Horst Schwaab
Cinematographer
Roland Hehn
Editor
Roland Hehn
Sound
Klaus Wildenhahn
Cast
Hilde Brahms, Schorsch Markgraf
A portrait of two outsiders and their life at the margins: the margin of society in West Berlin and the margin of a West Berlin student rally.

Ralph Eue
Retrospective 2019
Der Wiederaufbau der deutschen Wirtschaft 1945–1948 Rudolf Werner Kipp

How the foundations of the economic miracle were cast – a pleasantly dry chronicle of the first three post-war years.

Der Wiederaufbau der deutschen Wirtschaft 1945–1948

Documentary Film
FRG
1979
15 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
RKF Filmproduktion
Director
Rudolf Werner Kipp
How the foundations of the economic miracle were cast – a pleasantly dry chronicle of the first three post-war years.

Olaf Möller
Retrospective 2019
Der Wirtschaftswunderbaum anonymous

Why everything is getting better and better with Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard – an animated campaign commercial for the CDU.

Der Wirtschaftswunderbaum

Animated Film
FRG
1957
3 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Director
anonymous
Why everything is getting better and better with Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard – an animated campaign commercial for the CDU.

Olaf Möller

Des Lebens Wunderhorn

Documentary Film
FRG
1968
10 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Institut für Filmgestaltung Ulm
Director
Marion Zemann
The life of a young Swabian bakery employee. A vague longing for something else lurks between the phrases and images of her everyday life.

Ralph Eue
Retrospective 2019
Die Reise der Ida Irma nach Lunow Ricardo Íscar, Stephan Settele

A journey from Berlin Westhafen to Lunow, past the Eden reform estate and the clinkerworks of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Die Reise der Ida Irma nach Lunow

Documentary Film
FRG
1991
55 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin
Director
Ricardo Íscar, Stephan Settele
Cinematographer
Ricardo Íscar, Stephan Settele
Script
Ricardo Íscar, Stephan Settele
A journey from Berlin Westhafen to Lunow, past the Eden reform estate and the clinkerworks of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Fragments of memories, materialised in images and sounds.

Olaf Möller
Retrospective 2019
Die Teilung aller Tage Harun Farocki, Hartmut Bitomsky

An essay, modern in quite a different way, about the free market economy and its false promises. May the workers learn to resist.

Die Teilung aller Tage

Documentary Film
FRG
1970
31 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Cinegrafik, WDR
Director
Harun Farocki, Hartmut Bitomsky
Music
Lissa Bauer
Cinematographer
Carlos Bustamante, Adolf Winckelmann
Script
Harun Farocki, Hartmut Bitomsky
Sound
Johannes Beringer
Cast
Ingrid Oppermann, Gerd Volker Bussäus, Peter Schleh
Concept
Harun Farocki, Hartmut Bitomsky
An essay, modern in quite a different way, about the free market economy and its false promises. May the workers learn to resist.

Olaf Möller

Die Worte des Vorsitzenden

Documentary Film
FRG
1968
3 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
DFFB Berlin
Director
Harun Farocki
Cinematographer
Holger Meins
Script
Harun Farocki
Narrator
Helke Sander
Cast
Harun Farocki, Ursula Lefkes, Christiane Schily
Retrospective 2019
Düsseldorf – Modisch, heiter, im Wind verspielt Herbert Vesely

The North Rhine-Westphalian capital as the fashionable capital of couture, at eye level with Paris and Milan. All very tasteful.

Düsseldorf – Modisch, heiter, im Wind verspielt

Documentary Film
FRG
1961
12 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Producer
Euphono Film GmbH
Director
Herbert Vesely
Music
Rolf-Hans Müller
Cinematographer
Wolf Wirth
Editor
Rolf-Hans Müller
Script
Detten Schleiermacher, Peter von Zahn
The North Rhine-Westphalian capital as the fashionable capital of couture, at eye level with Paris and Milan. All very tasteful.

Olaf Möller
Retrospective 2018
Exprmntl 4 Knokke Claudia von Alemann, Reinhold E. Thiel

This was really broadcast on television once: a 45-minute report about an experimental film festival in the Belgian town of Knokke.

Exprmntl 4 Knokke

Documentary Film
FRG
1967
43 minutes
Subtitles: 
No

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Director
Claudia von Alemann, Reinhold E. Thiel
Cinematographer
Horst Brever
Editor
Hansjosef Hüls
Script
Claudia von Alemann, Reinhold E. Thiel
Sound
Manfred Maenicke
This was really broadcast on television once: a 45-minute report about an experimental film festival in the Belgian town of Knokke.

Ralph Eue